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• It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...
• Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.
  -- James Russell Lowell, "My Study Window...
• Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie
  Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not....
• She doeth little kindnesses Which most leave undone, or despise.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Love, iv...
• I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. -- Abraham Lincol
• Both of them [Breckenridge and Douglas, Lincoln's opponents] mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect, -- that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)...
• Abraham Lincoln always said you can't fool all the people all of the time.
  But Abraham Lincoln was fooling when he said that. -- Mark Russell...
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...